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Alan Mikhail |
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Curriculum Vitae |
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EMPLOYMENT
Stanford University Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in History, 2008-2010
Yale University Assistant Professor of History, Beginning 2010
EDUCATION
PhD University of California, Berkeley History, 2008
The Nature of Ottoman Egypt: Irrigation, Environment, and Bureaucracy in the Long Eighteenth Century Beshara Doumani (Chair), Khaled Fahmy, Thomas Laqueur, Leslie Peirce, and Paul Rabinow
MA University of California, Berkeley History, 2003
BA Rice University History and Chemistry, 2001
SELECT GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Stanford University Humanities Fellows Postdoctoral Program, 2008-2010
Qatar Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University (Declined), 2008-2009
Council of American Overseas Research Centers Multi-Country Research Fellowship, 2006-2007
American Research Center in Egypt Fellowship, 2006-2007
Andrew W. Mellon Grant, 2007
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, 2005-2006
Institute of Turkish Studies Grant, 2005
Center for Arabic Study Abroad Fellowship I, 2003-2004
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
Articles:
“The Nature of Plague in Late-Eighteenth-Century Egypt.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 82 (2008): 249-75.
“The Heart’s Desire: Gender, Urban Space and the Ottoman Coffee House.” In Ottoman Tulips, Ottoman Coffee: Leisure and Lifestyle in the Eighteenth Century, edited by Dana Sajdi. London: I.B. Tauris, 2007.
“al-Ḥayāh bayna al-Mumārasa al-Ijtimā‘īyya wa al-Ḥajr al-Ṣiḥḥī li-Muḥammad ‘Alī” [Life between Social Practice and Muhammad’s ‘Ali’s Quarantine]. In ‘Aṣr Muḥammad ‘Alī [The Reign of Muhammad ‘Ali]. Forthcoming. Cairo: al-Majlis al-A‘lā lil-Thaqāfa, 2008.
“Dirāsat al-Tābi‘ wa Naẓarīyyatayn ‘an al-Sulṭa” [Subaltern Studies and Two Theories of Power]. In al-Thaqāfa fī Miṣr fī al-‘Aṣr al-‘Uthmānī [Culture in Egypt in the Ottoman Period], edited by Nāṣir Aḥmad Ibrāhīm. Forthcoming. Cairo: al-Dār al-Miṣrīyya al-Lubnānīyya, 2008.
Alan Mikhail (with Gretchen Head). “Dirāsat al-Tābi‘: I‘ādat Kitābat al-Tārīkh” [Subaltern Studies: The Rewriting of History]. Akhbār al-Adab 587 (10 October 2004).
“al-Qāmūs wa al-Istishrāq” [The Lexicon and Orientalism]. Wijhāt Naẓar 6, no. 66 (July 2004).
Alan Mikhail (with Joel E. Boyd, Ari Briskman, Vicki Colvin, and Daniel Mittleman). “Size-Dependent Dielectric Properties of Liquid Water Clusters.” In Liquid Dynamics: Experiment, Simulation, and Theory, edited by John T. Fourkas. Washington, D.C.: American Chemical Society, 2002.
Reviews:
Diana K. Davis, Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007). International Journal of Middle East Studies. Forthcoming.
Carlos E. Cordova, Millennial Landscape Change in Jordan: Geoarchaeology and Cultural Ecology (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007). Agricultural History. Forthcoming.
Jane Hathaway, A Tale of Two Factions: Myth, Memory, and Identity in Ottoman Egypt and Yemen (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003). The MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies 7 (Spring 2007).
Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh, The Image of an Ottoman City: Imperial Architecture and Urban Experience in Aleppo in the 16th and 17th Centuries (Leiden: Brill, 2004). Arab Studies Journal 14: 2/ 15: 1 (Fall 2006/ Spring 2007).
Timothy Mitchell, Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002). Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 40: 2 (Winter 2006).
Nelly Hanna, In Praise of Books: A Cultural History of Cairo’s Middle Class, Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2003). Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 40: 2 (Winter 2006).
Stuart J. Borsch, The Black Death in Egypt and England: A Comparative Study (Austin: The University of Texas Press, 2005). al-Waqā’i‘ al-Miṣrīyya (Fall 2006).
Amy J. Johnson, Reconstructing Rural Egypt: Ahmed Hussein and the History of Egyptian Development (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2004). Hawwa: Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World 3:3 (Winter 2005).
Teaching Experience
Introduction to the Middle East Fall 2002 and Fall 2004 Graduate Student Instructor University of California, Berkeley
Research Languages
English, Arabic, Ottoman Turkish, Modern Turkish, French, Spanish
SELECT Conference Papers and Lectures
“Animals, Property, Law: The Case of Ottoman Egypt.” Paper Presented at “The American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting.” Tallahassee, February 2009.
“(Early) Modern Archive Animals.” Paper Presented at “The Middle East Studies Association of North America Annual Meeting.” Washington, D.C., November 2008.
“The Framework of Empire: A History of Wood and Labor in Ottoman Egypt.” Invited Lecture Given at Yale University, February 2008.
“Imperial Lumberings: A History of Wood in Ottoman Egypt.” Invited Lecture Given at Georgetown University, February 2008.
“How to Build Ships in Ottoman Suez: A History of Food and Wood in Early-Modern North Africa.” Invited Lecture Given at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, January 2008.
“Provisions for the Pilgrimage: Food and Wood in the Early-Modern Ottoman Empire.” Invited Lecture Given at the University of Pittsburgh, January 2008.
“Irrigating Alexandria: Labors of Life and Death on the Maḥmūdiyya Canal.” Invited Lecture Given at the University of Montana (November 2007), Virginia Tech (November 2007), the University of South Carolina (November 2007), Queens College (December 2007), Iowa State University (December 2007), Swarthmore College (December 2007), Florida State University (December 2007), Vanderbilt University (January 2008).
“Water Be Dammed: A History of Irrigation in Ottoman Fayyoum.” Paper Presented at “The Middle East Studies Association of North America Annual Meeting.” Montréal, Canada, November 2007.
“Oxen, Water Buffaloes, Donkeys, and Camels: Humans and Other Animals in Ottoman Egypt.” Paper Presented at “The Agricultural History Society Annual Meeting.” Iowa State University, June 2007.
“Beyond Center and Province: The Maghreb and Egypt in the Ottoman Period.” Paper Presented at “Ottoman Influences in the Maghreb.” Oran, Algeria, June 2007.
“Counting Men, Measuring Canals, Drawing Maps: The Science of Irrigation in Ottoman Egypt.” Invited Lecture Given at “Le Centre d’études et de documentations économiques, juridiques et sociales.” Cairo, Egypt, May 2007.
“Soiling History: The Environmental as a Framework of Analysis” (with Jennifer Derr). Invited Lecture Given to “The Interdisciplinary Seminar on Modern Middle East Studies.” American University in Cairo, Egypt, May 2007.
“A History of Animals in Ottoman Egypt.” Invited Lecture Given at “The American Research Center in Egypt.” Cairo, Egypt, May 2007.
“Irrigating Life: Labor, Enumeration, and Biopolitics in Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Egypt.” Paper Presented at “The American Historical Association Annual Meeting.” Atlanta, January 2007.
“A Labor of Death: Constructing Life on the Maḥmūdiyya Canal.” Invited Lecture Given at “The American Research Center in Egypt.” Cairo, Egypt, June 2006.
“Life and Death on the Maḥmūdiyya Canal.” Paper Presented at “The Second World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies.” Amman, Jordan, June 2006.
“Why Build the Maḥmūdiyya Canal.” Invited Lecture Given at “Institut français d’archéologie orientale du Caire.” Cairo, Egypt, June 2006.
“Coffee and Society in the History of the Middle East.” Invited Lecture Given at “The American Center Alexandria.” Alexandria, Egypt, February 2006.
“Dirāsat al-Tābi‘ wa Naẓarīyyatayn ‘an al-Sulṭa” [Subaltern Studies and Two Theories of Power]. Invited Lecture Given to “The Egyptian Association for Historical Studies.” Cairo, Egypt, December 2005.
“Quarantining Death: Water and Plague in Egypt, 1775-1825.” Paper Presented at “The Fourth International Water History Association Conference: Water and Civilization.” Paris, France, December 2005.
“al-Ḥayāh bayna al-Mumārasa al-Ijtimā‘īyya wa al-Ḥajr al-Ṣiḥḥī li-Muḥammad ‘Alī” [Life between Social Practice and Muhammad’s ‘Ali’s Quarantine]. Paper Presented at “Muhammad ‘Ali’s Reign: A Conference on the Occasion of the Bicentennial of Muhammad’s ‘Ali’s Rule.” The High Council of Culture, Cairo, Egypt, November 2005.
“Dying on the Nile at the End of the Eighteenth Century: al-Jabartī’s Accounts of Plague.” Paper Presented at “The Social Context of Death, Dying, and Disposal.” University of Bath, UK, September 2005.
“The Heart’s Desire: Gender, Urban Space, and the Ottoman Coffeehouse.” Paper Presented at “Rethinking Culture in the Ottoman Eighteenth Century.” Princeton University, January 2005.
“Doctoring Women: Qasim Amin and the Egyptian Family.” Paper Presented at “The Middle East Studies Association of North America Annual Meeting.” San Francisco, November 2004.
“Obelisks and Mummies: The Scientification of British Egyptology.” Paper Presented at “The Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies.” University of California, Berkeley, March 2004.
“The Medicalization of the Egyptian Family.” Paper Presented at “Families and Households in History” (the Annual History Seminar of the Department of Arabic Studies). The American University in Cairo, March 2004.
“Amrīkā wa al-‘Ālam al-‘Arabī” [America and the Arab World]. Lecture Given at “The Society of the Family.” Cairo, Egypt, June 2003.
“Something’s Brewing: Coffeehouses and Society in the Ottoman Empire.” Paper Presented at “The Middle East Studies Association of North America Annual Meeting.” Washington, D.C., November 2002.
“Cutting Text: Foucault and Edward William Lane’s Arabic-English Lexicon.” Paper Presented at “Global Localities: Theorizing Across Boundaries.” University of California, Irvine, November 2002.
Professional Service and Experience
Organizer, Presenter, and Chair. “Middle East Environmental History: An Introduction and Roundtable Discussion.” Roundtable at “The American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting.” Tallahassee, February 2009.
Organizer and Presenter, “Egyptian Modern: Norms, Forms, and Sources of the Social Environment.” Panel at “The Middle East Studies Association of North America Annual Meeting.” Washington, D.C., November 2008.
Chair, “Changing Urban Landscapes in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Egypt.” Panel at “The Middle East Studies Association of North America Annual Meeting.” Washington, D.C., November 2008.
Organizer and Presenter, “Ottoman Environmental History: Problems, Sources, Directions.” Panel at “The Middle East Studies Association of North America Annual Meeting.” Montréal, Canada, November 2007.
Chair, “Health Discourse: Reproductive Health.” Panel at “The Middle East Studies Association of North America Annual Meeting.” Montréal, Canada, November 2007.
Consultant and Translator, Now on PBS. Cairo, Egypt, March 2007.
Organizer and Presenter, “The Politics of Life: Cultivating and Constructing Humanity in the Nile Valley.” Panel at “The American Historical Association Annual Meeting.” Atlanta, January 2007.
Graduate Student Representative, Middle East Studies Association of North America Board of Directors, 2004-2005.
Chair, “Aspects of Modernity in Egypt.” Panel at “The Middle East Studies Association of North America Annual Meeting.” Washington, D.C., November 2005.
Organizer and Chair, “The Job Market 101.” Workshop at “The Middle East Studies Association of North America Annual Meeting.” Washington, D.C., November 2005.
Co-Coordinator, The California Middle East Social and Cultural History Association, 2004-2005.
Research Assistant to Leslie Peirce, Spring 2005.
Moderator, Middle East Studies Association of North America Graduate Student Listserv, 2004-2005.
Organizer and Chair, “Graduate Students and the Job Market.” Roundtable at “The Middle East Studies Association of North America Annual Meeting.” San Francisco, November 2004.
Organizer, Berkeley Middle East History Film Series, Fall 2004.
Research and Editing Assistant to Beshara Doumani, ed., Family History in the Middle East: Household, Property, and Gender (Albany: SUNY Press, 2003). Fall 2002.
Co-President, The Berkeley History Graduate Association, 2002-2003.
Coordinator, The Berkeley History Colloquia, 2002-2003.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Articles:
“Getting a Job.” Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 40: 1 (Summer 2006).
“Narrative Borders and the Politics of New History.” In Imagining Place and Rethinking Historiography. Vol. 146 of Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Working Paper Series. Berkeley: University of California Center for Environmental Design Research, 2002.
Encyclopedia Entries:
“Gambling.” In Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia. 2 Vols. New York: Routledge, 2005.
“Beni Suef,” “Heliopolis,” and “Tanta.” In The City and Urban Life. 3 Vols. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2005.
OTHER Grants and Fellowships
2007
Andrew W. Mellon Grant, 2006
Center for Arabic Study Abroad II Fellowship, 2005-2006
American Research Center in Egypt Fellowship (Declined), 2005-2006
University of California, Berkeley — Center for British Studies Conference Travel Grant, 2005
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, 2004-2005
University of California, Berkeley — Department of History Conference Organizing Grant (Declined), 2005
Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities Conference Organizing Grant (Declined), 2005
Andrew W. Mellon Grant, 2002-2003
University of California, Berkeley — Graduate Division Summer Fellowship, 2002
University of California, Berkeley — Department of History Graduate Fellowship, 2001-2003, 2004-2005, & 2007-2008
OTHER Conference Papers and Lectures
“A Social History of Ottoman Coffee.” Invited Lecture Given to the “Fulbright-Hays Teach Turkey Tour.” Cunda, Turkey, July 2005.
“Coffee’s Ottoman Spaces.” Paper Presented at “The Berkeley History Colloquium Series.” University of California, Berkeley, May 2005.
“Narrative Borders and the Politics of New History.” Paper Presented at “(Un)bounding Tradition: The Tensions of Borders and Regions” (the Eighth Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments). Hong Kong, December 2002.
“Orientalism and Text: A Theoretical Reading of Edward William Lane’s Arabic- English Lexicon.” Paper Presented at “The 17th Annual Middle East History and Theory Conference.” The University of Chicago, May 2002.
Professional Affiliations
American Historical Association
Middle East Studies Association
American Association for the History of Medicine
American Research Center in Egypt
American Institute for Maghrib Studies
American Society for Environmental History
American Association of University Professors
Egyptian Association for Historical Studies
REFERENCES
Department of History University of California, Berkeley (510) 643-3147
Department of History University of California, Berkeley (510) 642-2339 Department of History New York University (212) 998-8646
Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies New York University (212) 998-8896
Department of History University of California, Berkeley (510) 642-4413
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